Design of New Government Accountability Mechanism - NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (CAPO)

Project Member(s): Rock, E.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Aboriginal Land Council
NSW Aboriginal Land Council

Start year: 2024

Summary: NSW Government and the NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (CAPO) have agreed a plan to implement the National Agreement on Closing the Gap in NSW: 2022–2024 NSW Implementation Plan for Closing the Gap (NSW Government, August 2022). Priority Reform 3 in this Plan is to ensure that government organisations and services are accountable for Closing the Gap, including by designing an 'independent, Aboriginal-led accountability mechanism to monitor government accountability' (p 42). This research project will involve: * formulating design principles relevant to accountability mechanisms to be considered by Aboriginal organisations * providing input into the final proposal outlining options for the structure of the new accountability body * attending and providing input regarding accountability design principles at a meeting of CAPO organisations * supervising a research assistant in a literature review of overseas accountability models

FOR Codes: Administrative law , Law reform

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.